Much of our support (rugby knowledge, jobs, donations,…) comes from alumni, but most of them move away from town and become less active with the club. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to lure them in, especially using the website as a vehicle.
Online Community building ideas in general are great too.
Our website is run on Drupal, if anyone is thinking about applications with different modules.
I am a Lions Club member and wondered if the money I spend on dues and auto are considered charitable contributions per IRS rules? Is Lions a 501(c)3 organization? Please give reference. Thanks.
Alright, I know the year is almost over, but I thought it would be a good idea to start up an Animal Welfare club for next year, and my friends and I would start raising funds this summer, to get the club off the ground.
But Im still a little stuck.. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far..
Fundraisers…
We could do carwashes, for $5 per car
Bake Sales (Cookies, Brownies, Mini-Cakes), 50cents for cookies & brownies (really big lol) and $2.00 for a cake
Ice cream sales, $1.00 for a bowl, 25cents for toppings
Candy Sales from Equal Exchange Free Trade. the prices are determined by the company, and part of the money goes to small farmers that would otherwise go out of business.
Home made dog treats, for maybe $1 for a bag of 5
And I put a little twist on it too : all the foods that we sell are vegetarian, and sometimes organic! (im vegetarian, and since the group supports animals, I thought it would be a fun little thing to add in. The equal exchange candies are all organic)
Volunteering..
Each week (hopefully), or each month, we will volunteer at a local no kill shelter, and local farms.
We would also have little programs that are open to the public, where we inform them of animal cruelty and mistreatment, large factory farms, puppy mills, KFC, things like that, and letting them know what they can do to help. and also take..
DONATIONS!
All the donations will go to either the no kill shelter, or to a larger organization like PETA.
And everytime we do a fundraiser, 30% of whatever we earner will go to a no-kill shelter. (We will try to donate to just one shelter)
We will also buy things on their wishlists, and are trying to find shelters that are the most in need (not enough room, running out of supplies, etc..)
But I think I need more help! Im gonna refer to PETA2’s site for more help, and I have already rounded up a few friends to help me out this summer.. But where do I go from here?
And also, if anyone can think of some good names, that’d be great! But im thinking of just keeping it as “Animal Welfare Club” or “Group”, because our school is kinda boring, and they dont really personalize names lol. (Art Club. Chess Club. Foods Club.) So boring!!
So.. basic questions:
Who do I talk to from here?
Where should car washes be held?
What are some other things we could do to volunteer?
What are some other, more effective fundraisers?
Do you think this is a good idea/ it will work?
Thanks in Advance!!
KawaiiPOPâ„
I did not see it on the list of eligible vehicles. It has low miles and works really well, so I also don’t mind keeping it. But it gets around 14 MPG…
I do alot to bring this to the success that it has been. Making table centerpieces and individual gifts at each place for 40 people. Getting the hall setting up the menu… calling and getting prizes for a Chinese raffle and picking up the donations and sticking to a very low budget and spending $40 dollars of my own money. Bringing music… blah blah… after the party was over the restruant left the left over food in a box on the table and a women went over to the table and took all of the food.. I am so mad after all the work I feel I should at least had some say in where it went…
Some friends and I have had a crew / car club for years. However it was mostly just hanging out and chilling. now that we are older and some members have or are planning to get motorcycles. we are moving more towards an official auto club. We have desire to return something to our community by starting charity events and the such. We have support but we’re trying to get away from the street crew image and a real club. we have our logo and some local merchants on board to help us (making the patches and such). we are NOT a 1% oriented club and truly wish to benefit the community. However, we haven’t looked into it yet, but we see it hard to do charity events (collecting donations and such) without going through some channels to take care of taxes and such. Also to be official so someone feels better about donating to a real club insted of just a bunch bikers or people in tricked out cars. any ideas to pursue this path are appreciated thank you.
PS- I don’t have internet right now, so it may take a day or so to respond to any feedback. thank you.
Some friends and I have had a crew / car club for years. However it was mostly just hanging out and chilling. now that we are older and some members have or are planning to get motorcycles. we are moving more towards an official auto club. We have desire to return something to our community by starting charity events and the such. We have support but we’re trying to get away from the street crew image and a real club. we have our logo and some local merchants on board to help us (making the patches and such). we are NOT a 1% oriented club and truly wish to benefit the community. However, we haven’t looked into it yet, but we see it hard to do charity events (collecting donations and such) without going through some channels to take care of taxes and such. Also to be official so someone feels better about donating to a real club insted of just a bunch bikers or people in tricked out cars. any ideas to pursue this path are appreciated thank you.
PS- I don’t have internet right now, so it may take a day or so to respond to any feedback. thank you.
Yea, thanx alot Halfass, you were REAL helpful, being a “real” biker. We are not trying to be a biker club per se, but have support of both family riding clubs and the dominant 1% in the area. get your head outta your ass and don’t reply if your not going to help. thanks again to everyone else who answered. but like I just said the community is reaching out to us right now. hopefully we will get established soon.
BTW I didnt mean bikers wernt real clubs, I only ment that from a civilians pov. an established club is prob easier to believe would take the money you give and put to a good cause rather than a bunch of guys on harleys or tricked out cars claiming to be a club
What can we do as a club? we already volunteer at animal shelters and do the basics like donations, car wash, dog wash and stuff like that…
So what else is there to do?
examples like helping out endangered animals or something like that
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